equipment, fuels and
lubricants, manufactured goods, chemicals, food and live animals,
raw materials
Imports - partners: Germany, Italy, Russia, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (2001)
Debt - external: $9.2 billion (2001 est.)
Economic aid - recipient: $2 billion pledged in 2001 (disbursements to
follow for several years)
Currency: new Yugoslav dinar (YUM); note - in Montenegro the euro is
legal tender; in Kosovo both the euro and the Yugoslav dinar are legal
(2002)
Currency code: YUM
Exchange rates: new Yugoslav dinars per US dollar - official rate:
65 (January 2002), 10.0 (December 1998), 5.85 (December 1997), 5.02
(September 1996); black market rate: 14.5 (December 1998), 8.9 (December
1997)
Fiscal year: calendar year
Communications Yugoslavia
Telephones - main lines in use: 2.017 million (1995)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 87,000 (1997)
Telephone system: general assessment: NA domestic: NA international:
satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
Radio broadcast stations: AM 113, FM 194, shortwave 2 (1998)
Radios: 3.15 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations: more than 771 (including 86 strong
stations and 685 low-power stations, plus 20 repeaters in the principal
networks; also numerous local or private stations in Serbia and Vojvodina)
(1997)
Televisions: 2.75 million (1997)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 9 (2000)
Internet users: 400,000 (2001)
Transportation Yugoslavia
Railways: total: 4,059 km standard gauge: 4,059 km 1.435-m gauge (1,377
km electrified) note: during the 1999 Kosovo conflict, the Serbian rail
system suffered significant damage due to bridge destruction; many rail
bridges have been rebuilt; Montenegrin rail lines remain intact (2001)
Highways: 28,822 km (including 560 km of expressways) note: since the
end of the conflict in June 1999, there has been an intensive program to
either rebuild bridges or build by-pass routes (1999) unpaved: Waterways:
587 km note: the Danube River, central Europe's connection with the Black
Sea, runs through Serbia; since early 2000, a pontoon bridge, replacing a
destroyed conventional bridge, has obstructed river traffic at Novi Sad;
the obstruction is bypassed by a canal system, the inadequate lock size
of which limits the size of vessels which may pass; the pontoon bridge
can be opened for large ships but has slowed river traffic (2001)
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